Open Mic: Swithing Sports

Do you believe tennis players would make strong baseball hitters, and hockey player’s talented golfers?

Contemplating this query brings to mind the frivolous question if pigs can fly.

Let logic reign with this most hypothetical of questions.

It’s pretty simple, really.

Why switch from tennis to risk getting hit by a rock-hard baseball thrown or hit 80 or 90 miles per hour when you can happily enjoy knocking fuzz off a soft tennis ball and make big bucks doing it?

Tennis players go to nice places like London and Paris.

Why trade that for road trips, with all due respect, to Milwaukee or Kansas City for a baseball game?

And hockey to golf?

I haven’t seen a hockey player play golf, but I did witness up close on an 18^th tee once, Mickey Mantle – with forearms that would put most, if not all, hockey athletes to shame – crush a 3-wood with a baseball grip, no less, from a tee box where everyone else hit drivers.

Hockey to golf?

I can’t speak for them, but I’m fairly sure hockey studs wouldn’t mind foregoing 10 stitches from an opponent’s blade in their face, for chasing a little white ball around a lush golf course.

It’s easier to understand trading in a hockey match in Buffalo for a round of golf at the Blue Monster in Florida, than trading fuzz-coated soft balls for rocks.

End of discussion.